BBC slur on my 'big fat Nazi' wedding

One of the things you can do with video is make propaganda based on what you put in and what you leave out. It’s called editing. The Nazis did it; all the major media do it but the BBC is a specialist at it.

Using a wedding of reenactors they managed to make one man and the people who attended his wedding a Nazi.

It was hardly a conventional wedding. The bride was in a 1940s Bavarian dress - and the groom wore the uniform of a Second World War German army doctor.

Guests were in Nazi outfits too, dressed as the generals and officers who served Hitler's military machine.

And during the ceremony, which took place in July at the very British location of a Kent farm, the German national anthem Deutchschland Uber Alles was played.

Or so you might think if you had seen an edition of BBC1's Panorama last month. The programme, entitled Weekend Nazis, was made by controversial reporter John Sweeney, who referred to the nuptials as a 'big fat Nazi wedding'.

Last night, however, the BBC was at the centre of new allegations that it had misled viewers after the groom claimed it wrongly portrayed him as a Nazi sympathiser.

In fact, Nick Beardshaw is simply a member of a Second World War reenactment society. And yesterday he took the BBC to task for the way Panorama presented his wedding to his German-born wife Michaela.

Mr Beardshaw, 38, said that when viewers heard Deutchschland Uber Alles during the ceremony, it had been dubbed on by the BBC.

The new Mrs Beardshaw, also 38, was actually given away to the tune of the American forces' favourite I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time.

Her husband is also angry that although shots of the guests in Nazi uniforms were used, those in British and U.S. outfits were not featured.

The programme was filmed at a festival near Tonbridge attended by Second World War re- enactment groups, many in Nazi regalia. The Beardshaws' wedding took place on the same weekend and was attended by many of the festival's guests.

Mr Beardshaw, an aquarium guide from Hull, is a member of the Axis Forces Re-enactment Association.

He met his wife, who is originally from Recklinghausen, near Essen, at a re-enactment show two years ago.

What's interesting is that the BBC can rightfully claim that none of their images were faked. Yet the whole episode is still a "Big, Fat Lie." The BBC specializes in it.